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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1911)
OREGON EMERALD Editor in Chief.Ralph Moores, '12 Managing Editor... L. Burns Powell,, '12 News Editor.Wm. E. Lowell, 'll Assistant.Laurence Whitman, '14 City Editor.Karl Onlhank, '13 Copy Editors— .George Shantln, '12 .Fen Waite, '13 .Walter Bailey, '12 Special Assignments— .Evans Huston, '12 .Willetta Wright, 'll Reporters— .Walter Huntington, '12 .Edward Bailey. ‘13 .Henry Fowler, '14 .Edward Himes, '12 .Mildred Bagley, '12 .Erwin Roife, '13 .Lenore Hansen, '13 .Andrew Collier, '13 .Carin Degermark, '13 .William Cass, '14 .Oscar Hangen, '14 .Lloyd Barzee, '13 .Nell Hemenway, '13 .Walter Kimmell, '13 .Lucile Abrams, '13 .Elliott Roberts, '13 .Gladys Cartwright, '13 .Alfred Davies, 'I t .Alma Noon. ‘13 BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager.D. L. Dobie, ‘11 Advertising.R. C. Kennedy, '12 Circulation .Allyn F. Roberts, '12 Published Wednesday and Saturday during the college year by students of t NIVERSiTY OF OREGON Application made for second class mail tes. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne year-$1.00 Single copy - .05 Wednesday, January 25, 1911. Like 1 lie shadow of the gallows, to llie condemned m.m, the approaching examinations are overclouding the whole campus. Like repentent crim inals, we are deploring the inevitable, apprehensive of the hitter, unavoidable reckoning. As the condemned mail can, see few advantages in capital punish ment, at this time of the year arguments .against examinations and schemes to entirely abolish them, are rife. There arises the old question of why have exams anyhow .J Indeed the arguments for retaining the system are much the same as those .advanced in favor of capital punishment. We hang people as reckoning for a life of misdeeds, and to deter others. Our dear profess orx stale that they, too, are opposed to exams hut there must he some way of reckoning for a semester of idle ness, aiid that were the idlers not reck oned with severely the whole college would soon degenerate into mere ath letes and "society stars,’’ and so, as long as no one comes forward with a substitute plan, examinations with .'.11 their committal! worry, misery and calamity will doubtless continue to per sist. berhapx there may be a few students who are not thus a filleted by the glootm shadow of judgment and who, like the live wise virgins of lliblical renown, trim and till their mental lamps and go with light hearts into these intellectual feasts. The vast majority of us, however, have roistered, wassailed and slept the sem ester away and exams find us unpre pared, with our lamps unfilled. Ol course, we are now bestifring aurselves and make a great pother about doing a semester's work in a week and probably, most of us will cram in enough to gel through. Hut think of the w, sted calories, otl worry, nervousness, sleepless nights, and injured eyesight, all caused by the futile attempt of six hundred ot us to superficially “pre pare . Yes, of course we knew it was coming and should have worked svs temalieally, hut tlesh is weak, most of us. despite these semi annual afflic tions, have done this way for years, and students will doubtlest continue unpr. |x, icd until the examination'less) milleiiium. Meanwhile, we must worry, cram ami go to our semester reckon ings with the leal and trembling of cone dinned men. I he I ntel aid. however, is not Quix otic enough to undertake a crusade for the abolishment of exams, though the dnv will undoubtedly irrive when they will he regarded as a curious relic of imdiev.d scholasticism, like the study (if spelling or (ircck I hey are the one unpleasant feature of college life. Without them it would he one long spasm of unadulterated joy. They are the one fly in the otherwise honeyed existence. For the 5. who are prepared, examinations are both su perfluous and unnecessary; for the l>5 of us who are chronically unprepare 1. ex munition week is a living nightmare, a cumulation of horrors Wav with them; they peeve our dis positions. f O. A. C. WILL COACH PREP ATHLETES BY MAIL Coaching by correspondence is the latest tiling in track training. In order to have their high school athletes in the pink of condition, so that they will be able to furnish the best meet possible in the inter-scholastic contest at Cor , Cox, of the Oregon Agricultural Col ; lege, has secured a well qualified trainer to correspond with the prep school ath letes and give them instruction in the line of track training. The O. A. C. inter-scholastic meet will probably be pulled ofif on the 19th j and 20th of May, but May 5th, the date I of the annual inspection of the cadet j regiment, is being considered. Hill Military Academy, Columbia Uni versity, and the Eugene, La Grande, Cove, Baker City, Corvallis, Albany, Vancouver and Washington high schools have already promised to send teams to the meet, and others are expected to enter later. The O. A. C. management is work ing hard to make the high school meet a success, and a new track may be con structed for the event. BILL’S TRAINING SHED YIELDS TO ELEMENTS Succumbing to last night’s high wind, the training sheds, familiarly and vul garly known as Bill’s stock sheds, blew down. The collapse had been long ex | pcctcd, but it was necessarily i somewhat of a shock that the buildings under which the immortal Dan Kelly, Oliver Huston and Nelson Gammons had done their winter training should be carelessly allowed to topple over like a common woodshed, and lie on the ground, prospective material for the next Frosh bonfire. Bill says the pavilion was covered with insurance, if not with paint, and that with this money a green house i will he erected to shelter from the (blustering elements aspiring Freshman I track material. 'I he wreck was put on today’s enter tainment program and listed as exhibit I “C" to demonstrate to the lawmakers the tottering inadequacy of our equip ment. One of the most interesting produc tions that will be at the Eugene The ater this season, is the “Squaw Man.” It is the product of the versatile Ed win Milton Royle’s pen. Mr. Rovle was happy in the selection of his locality I upon which to build a story, and it con tains all the elements that go to make a success. No section of America bolds a stronger fascination for the tourist than does the Great West, with its wide plains and interesting characters. Mr. Royle has laid Ins story in Utah, the famous cattle country, where many sto ries could be told of fortunes won and lost, lie lias cleverly converted actual occurrences and scenes to stage uses, and how well be did bis work will be demonstrated when “The Squaw Man" will be presented at the Eugene Thea ter, Tuesday, Jan. 31st, by an especially selected cast. Ereshmen at the University of Wis consin are not allowed to walk on ihe campus. They are compelled to run from building to building with their c ips in their left hands. Kansas University has a precedent that a yell leader, if successful, shall keep the position through his college course and invent the color schemes for the games. Columbia has started a student bank in connection with other student activ ities. I'be bank is connected with the business office and pays no interest. lust because the typhoid scare is over is no excuse for anyone falling off the boiled water wagon. The dramatic club of the University of Utah recently staged the play entitled " The Professor's Love Story”, 'S \. Freshman, what is a dogma?” "1 don’t know, unless it is a puppy's mother,” replies the innocent. People who go to bed with the chick ens. i-xpect to waks up some morning on the perch of fame. Miss Marjorie llolcolm was called home Sunday on account of the illness of her sister. ALPHONSE-GASTON BALL FOR INTER-FRAT GAME A scrub basketball game, not listed in the inter-frat schedule, will be played in the men’s gym between the Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu fraternity teams shortly after exams. The conditions under which the game is to be played are somewhat unique in the annals of basketball at Oregon. No men who have played on class or fra ternity will be allowed on the floor, and, moreover, each frat will pick its op ponent’s team. Some of the players have been already selected, and it is reported that such experts as Tom Burke, Lyle Brown and Nick Carter will grace the floor. No player will be allowed to run more than ten steps with the ball, and a tained throughout the contest. Time will be called at intervals of five min utes, with thirty minutes between the halves. CALENDAR Thursday, Jan. 26— 4:00 P. M„ Villard, Girls’ Glee Club Meeting. 4:00 F. M., Sigma Chi vs. Avava. Friday, Jan. 27— 4 :00 P. M., Beta Theta Pi vs. Bea vers. 7:00 P. M„ Deady, Y. M. C. A. * Saturday, Jan. 28 4:00 P. M., Sigma Nu vs. Acacia. * 7 :00 P. M., Deady, Laurean Soci- * cty. * * He******* Cotrell & Leonard ALBANY. NEW YORK —M akcrs oi— CAPS & GOWNS To the American Uni versities, from the At lantic to the Pacific. Have you paid you subscription to the EMERALD? RED CROSS DRUG CO. M. L. Kreamer, Watch Maker Both at 460 Willamette St. We'll Treat You Right Oregon ! Here’s Success To You! 77; c H o us e'Jiirnish ers 475 Willamette St., near Fostoffice. 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